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ROSA PARKS

WHEN WAS SHE BORN

Rosa Louise McCauley

February 4, 1913

Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.

THE REAL NAME WAS ROSA LOUISE MCCAULY

� AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

�PARKS IS BEST KNOWN FOR WHAT SHE DID IN HER HOME TOWN OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA ON DECEMBER 1, 1955.

� WHILE SHE SAT IN A SEAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUS, THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO MOVE TO THE BACK OF THE BUS.

� SO A WHITE PASSENGER COULD TAKE THE SEAT IN THE FRONT OF THE BUS. DURING THIS TIME, WHEN THERE WERE NO WHITE SEATS FOR WHITE PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE WERE TOLD TO GET UP OUT OF THEIR SEAT.

PARKS REFUSED TO MOVE. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP). LIKE SO MANY OTHERS SHE WAS TIRED OF BEING TREATED AS A LOWER CLASS PERSON BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF HER SKIN.

WHEN ROSA PARKS WENT TO JAIL

• SHE WAS 381 DAYS IN JAIL.

• PARKS BEING FINGERPRINTED

• AFTER HER ARREST

SHE WROTE 2 BOOKS

ROSA PARKS MARRIED

Raymond Parks

WHEN ROSA PARKS DIED

� SHE DIED ON OCTOBER 24, 2005 (AGED 92)

� DETROIT, MICHIGAN. U.S.

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